Eurodad (the European Network on Debt and Development) is a network of 47 civil society organisations (CSOs) from 20 European countries. Eurodad works for transformative yet specific changes to global and European policies, institutions, rules and structures to ensure a democratically controlled, environmentally sustainable financial and economic system that works to eradicate poverty and ensure human rights for all.

Our focus is on strengthening the power of European CSOs, working as part of a global movement to push governments and powerful institutions to adopt transformative changes to the global economic and financial system.

Eurodad's Strategic Plan sets ambitious goals to help achieve: tax justice to stem the loss of resources in developing countries; ending debt crises that hinder economic progress; effective aid that will transform lives; publicly-backed private finance and investment agreements that accelerate development results; climate finance that is responsive to the climate adaptation and mitigation priorities of developing countries; and financial sector rules that promote prosperity and do no harm. Eurodad also has crosscutting priorities, which we integrate into all our work, of gender equality, global economic good governance, and responsible finance standards.

The main institutions targeted by the Eurodad network include European governments,
the World Bank, the United Nations, International Monetary Fund and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development.

Eurodad's vision is a world with:

Economic justice for all – an end to relative poverty and to the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few.

Fair, democratic, accountable and transparent governance – at local, national, regional and global level where all countries have a say, and all people can exercise their right to participate.

Finance that serves the people – and helps ensure human rights for all, and an environmentally sustainable planet. This means it is publicly regulated to meet social ends and recognise environmental limits, and enhances systems of redistribution to ensure economic justice.

Eurodad's key strengths include:

Our deep and detailed understanding of the issues we work on.

Our respected position with other allies and civil society networks, and our work with global and regional coalitions, in particular, our ability to develop joint strategies within our membership network, and our strong cooperation with allies from the global south.

We adopt a flexible approach to the role we play, ensuring we focus on what our most useful contribution can be – in any given situation – to making the desired transformative policy change happen, recognising the strengths of our members and partners. We prioritise cooperation with partners from the global south, seeking to work in partnership whenever possible, to listen to and respect their priorities, and to try to align ourselves to those.

Eurodad has existed since 1990 and has been registered as a non-profit organisation in Belgium since 2005. Full information on Eurodad’s funding and finances is available in ourannual reports.

Eurodad staff are formally accountable to the network members through two main routes: the General Assembly and the Board.
These bodies are described here.

General Assembly

Eurodad has a General Assembly of its members at least once per year. This is the time when all member organisations
can help determine the strategic direction and management of Eurodad. At General Assemblies the main tasks of Eurodad
member group representatives are to:

elect board members;

elect new Eurodad member groups;

approve financial reports and budgets;

debate and approve annual workplans and Eurodad's Strategic Plan.

Board of Directors

Eurodad’s work is overseen by the Board. The Board consists of between five and twelve people, drawn from member organisations and
elected for three-year terms by members at the General Assembly. The board provides guidance to the staff on the substance,
priorities and modalities of the network’s programme, as well as on financial and grant management, organisational development, and human resources issues. The board
normally meets four times per year.

The current members of the Board are as follows: (organisation, country, representative)

Antonia Vorner

Antonia is currently Eurodad's director (ad interim). Before that, she acted since March 2016 as Grants, Finance and Office Manager, leading the finance and office team. She had held similar roles in the Belgian Transition Network and Carbon Market Watch and worked for a European Commission project management unit responsible for tendering procedures and managed capacity building and development education projects in Guatemala, Burkina Faso, Central America and South East Asia. Antonia studied Law at the University of Vienna with a specialisation in European and Comparative Law. German is her mother tongue and she speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian.

Bodo Ellmers

Bodo is Eurodad's Head of Policy. This role includes managing Eurodad's policy team, supporting Eurodad's research activities, developing the network's policy positions with members, and representing Eurodad externally. He joined Eurodad back in 2009 as Policy and Advocacy Officer for aid effectiveness, leading campaigns on the OECD aid effectiveness process and on the UN Development Cooperation Forum, among others. In 2013 he moved on to lead Eurodad's work on debt, financial governance and responsible financing as Policy and Advocacy Manager. As such he has served on a United Nations expert group on sovereign debt workouts, and been in charge of Eurodad's advocacy towards the International Monetary Fund.

Prior to joining Eurodad, Bodo worked for the German branch of the Global Call to Action against Poverty campaign and was an independent advisor for several civil society organisations such as Concord, VENRO, Global Policy Forum Europe, Eurodad member WEED, and for the UN Millennium Campaign. He hols a degree in political science from the Free University Berlin. A native German speaker, Bodo is also fluent in English, and speaks intermediate Spanish and French.

Cécilia Gondard

Cécilia Gondard joined Eurodad in June 2018 as a Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer working on publicly-backed private finance. Her role involves research and analysis, advocacy, and campaign coordination. Before joining Eurodad, Cécilia worked for the Global Progressive Forum and the S&D Group in the European Parliament. She also coordinated the Europeans for Financial Reform coalition. Cécilia has a degree in European Studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Master’s degree in European Business from the ESCP-EAP European School of Management. Her mother tongue is French and she speaks fluent English and basic German.

Dominique Monti

Dominique Monti works as a volunteer in Eurodad. After having studied economics at the University of Grenoble (France), she worked in Paris for a publishing company for 15 years. Then she settled in Belgium where she worked for a database company. In order to have other aspects of working life than just from the private sector, she collaborates with the Eurodad team as a volunteer and deals with administration and translation.

Gino Brunswijck

Gino joined Eurodad in January 2018 as a Policy and Advocacy Officer. He carries out research, policy analysis and advocacy on conditionality by International Financial Institutions.

Before joining Eurodad, Gino worked at the Africa Europe Faith & Justice Network where he focused on research and advocacy on extractive industries, land rights and economic globalisation. He also worked as a research assistant at the College of Europe and has independently produced research papers on development issues. Previously, he carried out academic research on migration issues, and he has provided social and legal assistance to refugees for “Adviescentrum Migratie”. Gino has travelled and worked in several African countries.

Gino holds Master’s degrees in Economics and International Affairs from the University of Antwerp and in European Political Affairs from the College of Europe. He is fluent in Dutch, French and English and he speaks conversational Spanish.

Jan Van de Poel

Jan joined Eurodad in 2019 as Policy and Advocacy Manager on aid effectiveness. In this capacity he leads Eurodad's policy and advocacy team working to improve the effectiveness of aid, push for fair climate finance that is responsive to the climate adaptation and mitigation priorities of developing countries and change the way publicly-backed private finance is used in development. Prior to joining Eurodad, Jan worked for Eurodad member organization 11.11.11 (Belgium), where he was responsible for the organization's advocacy on development finance, including private finance and international taxation, and served as Head of Policy between 2016 and 2019. He holds a PhD in history from the Free University of Brussels and degrees in Political Science (Université Catholique de Louvain) and Economics (Ghent University). A native Dutch speaker, Jan is also fluent in English and French and speaks intermediate Spanish.

Jeronimo Ruiz Victoria

Jeronimo joined Eurodad on April of 2013 as a Grants & Admin Officer. He supports the general management of the office, IT compliance and financial aspects of grants management.
Before joining Eurodad Jeronimo worked in management within the private sector in Mexico. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the Universidad Interamericana para el Desarrollo in Mexico and also a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Jonkoping International Business School in Sweden. He speaks Spanish as his native language as well as English.

Julia Ravenscroft

Julia joined Eurodad in
October 2013 as Communications and Funding Manager. She is responsible for all
communications work including the website, social media, media liaison,
publications and the newsletter. Julia previously managed the communications work
of the European advocacy network Action for Global Health. She also worked for
several years as a media officer for the UK-based NGO Refugee Action and is a
former newspaper journalist.

Lottie Atkin

Lottie joined Eurodad in January 2019 as Communications
Assistant, supporting the Communications Manager and the Senior Communications
Officer. When she left school she moved to India for a year under the guidance
of the educational NGO Project Trust, where she worked at Devnar School for the
Blind as a volunteer English teacher and social carer. Following this, Lottie
spent two years on the Isle of Coll in the inner Hebrides to work for Project
Trust in a similar role. Her mother tongue is English and she speaks fluent
Dutch and basic French following an upbringing in the Netherlands and
Switzerland.

María José Romero

María José joined Eurodad in July 2012 as a Policy and Advocacy Officer working on Private finance and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs). Her role involves research and analysis, advocacy and monitoring policy developments.
Before joining Eurodad, María José worked at the secretariat of the Latin American Network on Debt, Development and Rights (Latindadd), based in Peru, on tax justice and development finance. She has also worked at Eurodad before as a maternity leave replacement on tax justice. For five years she was Coordinator of the IFIs Latin American Monitor project at the Third World Institute (ITeM), based in Uruguay, where her main roles were networking and policy monitoring at a regional and global level on IFI-related issues and development finance.
María José has a degree in political science from the University of the Republic of Uruguay and is master candidate in political science from the same university. Her mother tongue is Spanish and she speaks fluent English.

Marian Blondeel

Marian joined Eurodad in 2019 where is Communications Manager during Julia Ravenscroft's maternity leave. Marian has over a decade of experience implementing advocacy and communications strategies in intergovernmental organisations, NGOs, and the public and private sectors. She has lived and worked in Guatemala, Peru, Vietnam and the UK, Belize and Panama. She worked with various stakeholders to include their views and objectives in these strategies, from indigenous leaders in the Peruvian Amazon Forest to ethnic Khmer minorities in Vietnam.

Mark Perera

Mark joined Eurodad in July 2017 as Senior Networking and Advocacy Officer. He is part of the team taking forward Eurodad’s work on preventing and resolving debt crises, which includes developing and strengthening civil society capacity to work on debt-related issues. Before joining Eurodad, Mark worked as Project Manager and EU Advocacy Coordinator for Amnesty International in Brussels. He has worked for many years in civil society, including as Lead Researcher and Advocate for the Transparency International EU Office, and in the youth and conflict resolution fields. Mark holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Bristol. His mother tongue is English, and he also speaks French, passable Swedish, and a smattering of Spanish.

Olivia Lally

Olivia joined Eurodad in June 2018 as
Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer, working on the tax justice team. She
coordinates advocacy with EU institutions and carries out research on
transparency and corporate tax, as well as engaging with Eurodad members.

Before joining Eurodad, Olivia lead
Sightsavers Ireland’s Public Engagement team, focused on disability inclusive
development policy and Chaired the Dóchas Disability and International
Development Working Group. Prior to this, Olivia worked with ActionAid Ireland
leading tax justice policy, advocacy and campaigning, and representing the
organisation within Tax Justice Network Ireland. Olivia lectures on tax justice
and international development issues in Irish universities, and has a keen
interest in tax treaties and the gender dimensions and impacts of tax policy.

Olivia holds a Master’s degree in
International Human Rights Law, from the Irish Centre for Human Rights and an
undergraduate degree in Political Science, Sociology and English from the
National University of Ireland Galway. English is her mother tongue.

Rianne Franken

Rianne joined Eurodad in November 2017 to replace Antonia during her maternity leave for a year as Head of Operations (previously Grants, Finance and Office Manager). She leads the finance and office team, who is responsible for ensuring that Eurodad remains well funded, that grants, finances, human and other resources are managed effectively, and that the organisation continues to develop. Before joining Eurodad, Rianne worked for more than 10 years in the Middle East in similar roles for War Child and Spark. Rianne studied Hotel Management at the University of Leeuwarden. Dutch is her mother tongue and she speaks English, and a bit of French.

Sachan Kumar

Sachan joined Eurodad in February 2017 as Finance and HR officer. He is responsible for Eurodad’s accountancy and helping to manage Eurodad’s finances and human resources. Before joining Eurodad, Sachan spent 6 years working as Finance Administrator for the European NGO Confederation for relief and development (CONCORD). He has also worked with CONCORD as a Finance and Administration Officer for the European Year for Development 2015 project (EYD2015). Sachan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and Management from the Ecole pratique des hautes études commerciales (EPHEC) in Brussels. He speaks French, English, Hindi and Punjabi.

Tove Maria Ryding

Tove joined Eurodad in March 2013 as Senior Policy Analyst. She now leads the work on tax and transparency, and carries out coordination, advocacy, communications work as well as research and analysis. Tove is one of two elected representatives for Tax Justice Europe in the coordinating committee of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice, as well as a member of the coordinating committee of the Financial Transparency Coalition.

Before joining Eurodad Tove worked with Greenpeace International as coordinator for climate policy. She’s also been chair of the Danish 92 Group for 5 years and head of the Danish NGO Forests of the World for 3 years. Tove speaks Danish, Swedish and English.

Alliances

Eurodad is grateful to all its network members and to other funders who have made it possible to carry out the work presented in this report. They are listed below.

As advocates for transparency and public access to information, Eurodad discloses additional financial information beyond what is legally required, including a detailed overview of grant income by donor and grant purpose.

European Union project N° CSO-LA/2018/401-870: “Strengthening the institutional, operational and representational capacity of the Eurodad network to undertake coordinated actions and advocate for policy changes that help ensure a democratically controlled, environmentally sustainable financial and economic system that works to eradicate poverty and ensure human rights for all.”

The 2017 financial statements were audited by an external auditor, Luteijn, Serghini & Co Registered Auditors, in accordance with the financial reporting framework applicable in Belgium. You can access a copy of the Auditor’s report here.